A compelling guide to understanding cancer and embracing life.Rogue Cells is the essential guide to navigating cancer diagnosis and treatment. Coauthored by Dr. Richard J. Jones, an internationally renowned cancer physician and researcher, and T. Michael McCormick, this guide provides the important information that patients and physicians need to know to approach cancer with more hope and less worry and fear.With an engaging blend of science a...
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is one of the most common procedures performed in sports medicine centers. However, these procedures can carry a long-term failure rate as high as 5-15%%, and when these procedures fail, revision is significantly more complex. Considerable factors need to be assessed in patients that are indicated for surgery, as revisions carry a higher failure rate and potentially less optimal outcomes and return to ...
As the twenty-year anniversary of losing his father in the 9/11 disaster approaches, Bryan Rogers takes a sabbatical from his job as a Seattle neurosurgery PA to sail around the world. Halfway through his trip, he feels compelled to enter Yemen's bloody civil war to use his medical skills to save the children. A year into his peace mission, he stumbles on a terrorist plot that would eclipse the one that took his dad, and he is the only person ...
This is a story about bereavement, love, loss, and hope, set on the backdrop of Yemen's civil war. On August 9, 2018, a Saudi Arabian jet dropped an American-made bomb onto a Yemeni school bus killing forty boys under the age of ten. While a historical event, in this fictionalized account the protagonist, American physician associate, Bryan Rogers, who came to Yemen on a medical peace mission after losing his own father in the 9/11 attack 16 y...
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is one of the most common procedures performed in sports medicine centers. However, these procedures can carry a long-term failure rate as high as 5-15%%, and when these procedures fail, revision is significantly more complex. Considerable factors need to be assessed in patients that are indicated for surgery, as revisions carry a higher failure rate and potentially less optimal outcomes and return to ...
A start-to-finish guide to one of the most useful programming languages for researchers in a variety of fields
In the newly revised Third Edition of The R Book, a team of distinguished teachers and researchers delivers a user-friendly and comprehensive discussion of foundational and advanced topics in the R software language, which is used widely in science, engineering, medicine, economics, and other fields. The book is designed to be used a...
What does great coffee roasting, wooden boats, and Washington San Juan Islands have in common? A mysterious sea-drifter named Winston and a barista named Halem. He has the uncanny ability to peer into the depths of people's souls. She is lost within the labyrinth of her own anguish. Is he her savior or swindler?
Inheriting an IRA was inspired by everyday questions that Mike Jones, CPA, addresses about this crucial topic. Those questions come from IRA inheritors as well as from professionals in the fields of accounting, law, investment management, and philanthropy. It is written for IRA inheritors and their advisors to use together, because Mr. Jones has found that an informed IRA inheritor working together with a knowledgeable advisor consistently pro...
Inheriting an IRA Professional Edition was created as a companion to Inheriting an IRA - How to Create a Lifetime of Paychecks. This Professional Edition contains cites and additional commentary and is directed to advisors working with IRA inheritors. Inheriting an IRA - How to Create a Lifetime of Paychecks was inspired by everyday questions that Mike Jones, CPA, addresses about this crucial topic. Those questions come from IRA inheritors as ...
At age 11, Christina was full of life and energy with the promise of being a great swimmer and person. Then one day it seemed like the sun came too close, causing her head to hurt and her stomach to churn. Everything suddenly changed when migraines intruded into her serenity, destroying her hope for any quality of life. She bravely navigated the obstacles of being misunderstood, poorly treated, and social stigmas until she was in her forties a...
Curtis Eisner is a brilliant neurosurgeon, with a gift for seeing mathematical patterns in nature. This gift allows him to find an innovative way to fix spinal cord injuries. However, his dream of saving the world's para and quadriplegics, becomes maliciously entangled in the American medical-business complex. What happens when Mack Pendleton, a billionaire financier, takes Dr. Eisner's genius in a new and dark direction? Can Becky, his wife, ...
In 1988 while working for a demanding Christian organization, Michael Jones moves his family to the Middle East to serve as missionaries to Muslims. Though Michael finds the Muslim people to be extremely hospitable, he discovers serious flaws within his own evangelical worldview. After a catastrophic collapse of faith, standing in middle of the post-evangelical wilderness, Michael contemplates possible paths out, including returning to agnosti...
The purpose of this book is to present new mathematical techniques for modeling global issues. These mathematical techniques are used to determine linear equations between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables in cases where standard techniques such as linear regression are not suitable. In this book, we examine cases where the number of data points issmall (effects of nuclear warfare), where the experiment is not repeatab...